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How successful companies do ads: ONLY invest in the ad if you have at least 3X ROI to cut out all the "bullshit tiny 1% improvement" ideas, and you don't run into any problems the article mentions.

eBay ran into millions of problems, because they focussed on "how could we improve sales by 0.0001%" and is the ROI of this ad 0.001% or 0.002%?

"The experiment continued for another eight weeks. What was the effect of pulling the ads? Almost none. For every dollar eBay spent on search advertising, they lost roughly 63 cents , according to Tadelis’s calculations." - that issue isn't related to a problem with digital advertising, but to horrible financial management

Warren Buffett famously said: "When you read EBITDA, you should think BULLSHIT". The only reliable metrics are EBIT (if you precisely know the debt and tax situation of the company, which is usually laid open in the reports), and NET PROFIT.

Remember just 1 month ago, when WeWork tried to FRAUD everyone with their "we invented our own EBITDA"-metric, which they called 'EBIT adjusted for consciousness, because we sell consciousness, so we factor in the amount of consciousness we generate per square mile!!!!' ?

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@sifilpov: Most high-growth startups are like this, and a fair share of "growth companies". Differentiating the two is exactly the difficult part ;).

One upside of saving it as hundreds of lines: You can immediately spot if somebody is copying or stealing your logo. I think very well that that might be intentional.

That's exactly the spirit! The internet makes it so easy for "poorer" countries to level up damn quickly! Spread the word there! <3

He got a contract and nothing to do? Perfect, it's free money on the table and he can also take another paid job at the same time! <3

At the same time, it will also WEED OUT a lot of crapware. Only the best and best-cared-for software will remain :D.

Because if you would REALLY CARE, you would walk by foot or not leave the house at all! ;)

There's even an exceptionally good German movie about this entire phenomenon (it was discovered first in Germany): Die Welle (The Wave)

So Groupon's CEO mistake was that other people DISCOVERED his fraudulent activities? That's a great learning LMAO. It sounds very much he hasn't learned a thing.

I think the surprisingly simple bottom line is: Infrastructure is EXTREMELY expensive (are you willing to pay 10'000 for every ride?) and the upside NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE to gauge.

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Adam Neumann and his wife Rebekah Neumann have repeatedly shown massive unethical behavior (see the plethora of Bloomberg articles about the many examples) without integrity on many levels, which are a "extremely interesting set of self-dealing priorities"-at best.

Germany hands down: learn a new language, a new continent, better work-live, happier people, better IT and gov for IT

Uncanny valley has a new definition: Facebook Legless Avatars (FLA)(wed)

I agree with that 100%. Human procreation has massively slowed down as wealth increased. I'd love to see some startups/governments tackle this REAL challenge.

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Why not compare Philippine Treasuries and US Stocks next? #1 rule in finance: use the correct benchmarks ;D

Make it even more extreme. I bet that the Treasuries would also outperform if you take 10'000 year timespan. Simply because: Which company would really survive 10'000 years, huh? So the total return would be 0. And as long as Treasuries>0, that research paper is little more than a fairly obvious statement, at best.

Note how this is about GLOBAL stocks, not US Stocks, which would be the better comparison

Sounds like California is entering an ERA OF MASSIVE OVERREGULATION. Goodbye, startups, goodbye investors :(

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China WANTS to disable all mass groupings as they endanger the government and political stability.

If I copy and paste this formula to Google, I get a different result

In the EU you can get credit for 1% and less at any German/UK/French/... bank. Do you really want to pay 10-30% instead at Stripe?

I'm a heavy user of Stripe with 3 businesses >50k MRR and for me charging 10% (even if it's 1 year loan), let alone a >25%+ APR is RIDICULOUS. I'd certainly never use it. I mean this as constructive feedback. I'm actually very disappointed by this ridiculously lousy offer for customers, because that's the opposite of how I've known Stripe: friendly and customer-oriented.

Cut your fees by 5X and then you have a product we're talking.

I totally fail the point of this article. Why not just say A, B, C, D, E, F as the letters that they are? Works perfectly fine.

1F is just a two-syllable word. Just like "fiftysix" is.

I strongly encourage Facebook and Instagram to follow suit!